Comments on: 6 Linux Burning Applications – Overview & Screenshots

By: zboszor

zboszor — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:53:57 +0000

What this article fails to mention is that the open-source programs above are only GUIs hiding the real workhorse, the command line tools (mkisofs and cdrecord) coming from cdrtools or the forked and split up tools (genisoimage and wodim). If you use the original cdrtools, every GUI apps above can write Bluray, DVD and CD, if you use wodim, every one above lacks Bluray support. Nero – as a full-featured burner application itself – is the only one that doesn’t depend on cdrecord/wodim.

By: ginjabunny

ginjabunny — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:19:22 +0000

I use GnomeBaker as Brasero doesn’t work for me, they both use wodim backend but the difference being that GnomeBaker has a “force” option allows it to work with my writers.

By: hulk

hulk — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:28:38 +0000

Gnome Baker! Word!

By: Dadoo

Dadoo — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:22:15 +0000

“Nero should be congratulated…”

Yeah, I’m going to say “Too little, too late.” At this point, the free burners (especially K3B, IMO) are at least as good (if not better) than Nero. Had they jumped into the Linux market, say, 5+ years ago, it would be a completely different story, but now the free tools have caught up.

I’ll admit that Linux application development is slow, but little by little, we’re catching up. If real software vendors (like Adobe, with Photoshop) don’t start working with Linux soon, they’re going to find themselves left behind (like Nero), and I’ll have no sympathy for them.

By: apexwm

apexwm — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:04:48 +0000

I’ve had mixed luck with Brasero. It’s burned some coasters for me and overall K3B offers more features, like auto verification after the disc is burned. Also, if you run Gnome, you can run K3B (just use “yum install k3b”) and the KDE libraries will be installed so that the application will run.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:03:33 +0000

“Why would you bother with Nero at all??”

Nero should be congratulated (if not supported) for actually making an effort and releasing software for Linux. They have an incentive to make their offering better than current offerings and, if this raises the bar, then all the better.

By: nightgoblin

nightgoblin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:59:28 +0000

What about SimpleBurn?
http://simpleburn.tuxfamily.org/

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:54:27 +0000

What about including open source software that works on Windows too as InfraRecorder? It’s a great one too.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:30:38 +0000

What about GnomeBaker?

By: matt

matt — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:53:10 +0000

Why would you bother with Nero at all?? Why would you want a closed source limited crippled trial version of an application ?

I have been using k3b for years and it does everything I need

By: devnet

devnet — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:37:05 +0000

The one you’re missing that is really good (and cross desktop) is Graveman. While it is not actively developed, it does get the job done and with a lightweight footprint at that.

http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/index.php?l=e